Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 238, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1999, 2:36 AM CDT for Delaware County, Mayes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 54 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1999, 2:36 AM CDT (07:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1999, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 2:42 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Locust Grove, OK | A large tree was uprooted. |
| May 17, 2:45 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 | Pryor, OK | Two pickup trucks and a car were totaled when winds blew trees over onto them. |
| May 17, 3:08 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Leach, OK | Winds estimated at 60 miles an hour damaged several structures. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 66 min |
| May 16, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 50 min |
| May 17, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 49 min |
| May 17, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 43 min |
| May 17, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 25 min |
| May 17, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 53 min |
| May 17, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 46 min |
| May 17, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okmulgee | 57 min |
| May 17, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 57 min |
| May 17, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 41 min |
| May 17, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Muskogee | 56 min |
| May 17, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Sequoyah | 63 min |
| May 17, 2:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 55 min |
| May 17, 2:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 55 min |
| May 17, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 53 min |
| May 17, 8:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 32 min |
| May 17, 8:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 30 min |
| May 17, 9:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 29 min |
| May 17, 10:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 45 min |
| May 17, 10:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 35 min |
| May 17, 10:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 45 min |
| May 17, 10:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 45 min |
| May 17, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 35 min |
| May 17, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 40 min |
| May 17, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 44 min |
| May 17, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 43 min |
| May 17, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 40 min |
| May 17, 3:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 2 hr |
| May 17, 3:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Latimer | 115 min |
| May 17, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 37 min |
| May 17, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 54 min |
| May 17, 4:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 3 hr |
| May 17, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 51 min |
| May 17, 2:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 55 min |
| May 17, 3:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin, Madison | 54 min |
| May 17, 3:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll | 54 min |
| May 17, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Washington | 15 min |
| May 17, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 15 min |
| May 17, 10:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll | 51 min |
| May 17, 10:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Washington | 35 min |
| May 17, 11:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 28 min |
| May 17, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 38 min |
| May 17, 3:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 2 hr |
| May 17, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 48 min |
| May 17, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 17 min |
| May 17, 4:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 3 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.